Long curved sword with leather covered handle bound with brass wire, brass guard and pommel. Around the handle is a ring of plaited leather. [El.B 22/08/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: Long curved sword with leather covered handle bound with brass wire, brass guard and pommel. Around the handle is a ring of plaited leather. [El.B 22/08/2007]
Long description: The guard has two symbols, the number 17 and the number 733 stamped onto it. [El.B 22/08/2007]
Geographical reference: France
Europe > Western Europe > France; Champagne-Ardenne région Ardennes département Sedan
Cultural groups: French
Person: Field collector Maurice Henry Berkeley; PRM source Wolstan Edward Francis Berkeley
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1871
Date collected: November 1874?
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1945
Materials and processes: Material Brass Metal, Material Steel Metal, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Forged (Metal), Process Bound, Process Plaited
Dimensions: Length: max 1065 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1945.6.12
Research and responses: Name of MHB Maurice Henry Berkeley, found out from genealogical research, brother of Hubert and Wolstan [AP 29/04/2014]
Sedan town, Ardennes département, Champagne-Ardenne région, northeastern France. Battle of Sedan (Sept. 1, 1870), decisive defeat of the French army in the Franco-German War, which led to the fall of the Second French Empire; it was fought at the French border fortress of Sedan on the Meuse River. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica [MR 3/8/2000].

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